Detective Tom Ludlow is the star cop in his ambitious unit and, while they will gladly be a bit brutal if it helps them put away bad guys, the unit has each other’s back. When they learn that Ludlow’s former partner Terrence Washington is cooperating with Internal Affairs about him and Ludlow’s strong-arm tactics, it presents a problem. When that particular problem helpfully goes away, though, it leads Ludlow to dig himself a deeper and deeper hole.

7/10

Somewhat forgotten Keanu Reeves dirty cop thriller. Perhaps it was dismissed because of similarities to Oscar-winning Denzel Washington’s Training Day or director David Ayer’s own Kurt Russell dirty cop movie Dark Blue but it had been six years since they were released. Perhaps because critics didn’t like Keanu Reeves (who is good) as a brutal cop. And yet this is a crisp, interesting, well-acted thriller with an intriguing story of a highly effective but brutal cop not, unusually, finding his conscience or becoming a good or repentant cop, but being a brutal cop pointed in the right direction. It’s interesting because it reminds us that our systems of law sometimes have such difficulty in providing justice. We realise that it doesn’t always work as intended but do we want the alternative?